manslaughter

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noun

Plural noun:

manslaughters

1.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The slaying of a human being.
2.
(countable, uncountable)(law) The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger; considered less culpable than murder, but more culpable than justifiable homicide.

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manslaughterousconstructive manslaughtercorporate manslaughtercriminally negligent manslaughterfirst-degree manslaughterinvoluntary manslaughtersecond-degree manslaughtervoluntary manslaughterself-slaughter

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From Middle English manslaȝter, manslauter, equivalent to man + slaughter, or taken as an adaptation of Old English mansliht (murder; killing of a person), from mann + sliht, see manslaught. Cognate with manslauchter homicide. Compare also monslaga murder.